Rick Roufus Vs. Changpuek Kiatsonkrit
December 26, 2006 by nopstar
Greetings from Bangkok… I really need to get a laptop. Sitting here in a noisy internet cafe at the end of Surawong Rd. I’ve been training here and there. I’m planning on going to the New Years Eve fights at Rajadamnern Stadium. So I hope to have lots of action shots of the happenings. Speaking of fights, I wanted to share this one with you guys…
I really dislike those TKD vs Muay Thai videos, every time I’m on Youtube there seems to be another one. Is there really a question? These Videos seem to be as popular as the “Muay Thai Leg Break” video. Seriously people, why the fuck are you uploading yet another copy of the same identical video? Anyways.. I’m not a big fan of those comparison videos as there never a fair representation. There always a mismatch, the promoters who put those things on are trying to make a point.
That being said I came across this fight between Rick Roufus and Changpuek Kiatsonkrit. Changpuek has to be one of the toughest guys ever. Every clip I see of him, he’s catching a severe beating. He’s like Julio Cesar Chavez except with 3x times more fights. This guy is definitely old school. You might not realize but you’ve probably already seen Changpuek in action. He is the old TKD vs. Muay Thai Clips, There are a few others, where he loses to Andy Hug and Peter Smit. Changpuek has been competing in the original K-1 when it was just “Mixed Styles” going at under Full Contact Karate rules.
So I feel that it’s sort of an decent match because Changpuek isn’t allowed to use knees are elbows in this match. If they wanted to make it 100% fair they should have had him where a pair of booties. I guess it doesn’t matter as the booties won’t cover his shins anyway. I realize it’s sort of on the long side (27 Min.) trust me it’s worth it, these guys battle.
“I will show them I will fight under their rules..” You kidding me?! No knees or elbows is like football with no passing allowed. Is it safe to say Rick has never been ‘hit’ as hard as Changpuek is able to ‘hit’? hahaha I can’t believe the American commentators a lot of the time.
well they know now who can hit hard
Mwahahahahaaahah!……1) the commentator refered to Thai camps as “DOJOS”.
2) Rick Roufus stated ” I will show them that I can fight under their rules” who’s “them”…cuz he surely can’t be talking about Thais (no elbows, no knees are allowed in this bout by the way).
3) The commentator says “Rick Roufus probably hit harder than anyone Kiatsongrit has run into”..hahaha…..Somehow I doubt that very, very, very much.
4) 3 points for a throw????…..3 points????…and I’m sure they never discussed the throws being illegal in K.B.
5) all of this points…Changpuek was racking up, and he looked like he didn’t even care, because he knew Roufus wasn’t gonna last anyway.
I still have to give it to Roufus, he is very courageous and I respect him….he kinda reminded me of Masato when he was getting obliterated by Buakaw but kept on fighting til the end. Also I would like to note that Roufus’ corner are a bunch of dumbasses for not throwing in the towel in the first place.
Changpuek’s low kics were INSANE!!!!…..LOL. However I don’t condone that belly stomp
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